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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (4446)9/21/1998 9:48:00 PM
From: dougjn  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
You have endeavored to insult me as a lawyer a number of times BP.

Let me tell you what makes a good, or great lawyer BP. Different things in different contests.

But it is rarely, if ever, a matter of how much local law the lawyer knows when first starting to devote himself (or herself) without reservation to the matter at issue.

It is a way of thinking. An ability to parse through the noise and to find the key, determinative element or elements. In more rarefied, appellate or corporate practice, it has to do mostly with knowledgeable, deep, balanced, and therefor persuasive arguments. In trial law, success may depend more on emotive presentation, and jury persuasion. In each case, cutting to the heart of the key persuasive issue is what is important. How much you know about local law before you begin is most unimportant.

Doug
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